Summary:
For over a decade Joey
Gazelle has successfully juggled his conflicting roles as both loving family man
and a low-level employee of the Italian Perello mob in Grimley, New Jersey.
However, when Joey ignores the mobís explicit instructions to dispose of a gun
used in the fatal shooting of a corrupt cop during a bungled drug buy, he
unwittingly puts his entire family in immediate danger. Joey stows this
incriminating piece of evidence in his basement for possible future use as
collateral against his employers, only to have his sonís best friend, Oleg,
discover and abscond with the weapon. Unaware that the disappearance of this
weapon could jeopardize both Joey and himself, Oleg uses it to wound his abusive
stepfather Anzor, the drug-addicted black sheep of the Russian Yugorsky mob, and
then flees into the night. As he vainly seeks safe haven, Oleg encounters and
dodges a slew of nocturnal miscreants, all the while being pursued by relentless
Perello and Yugorsky henchmen as well as by the nefarious Detective Rydell, a
corrupt cop who is hell-bent on profiting from the missing gunís potentially
disastrous effects on the already uneasy alliance between the rival Perello and
Yugorsky clans. Meanwhile, Joey, hot on Olegís trail and aided by both his wife
Teresa and son, has embarked on a frantic night-long search, not only to locate
Oleg and the gun, but also to save his own life and street credibility by
keeping the gunís disappearance a secret from both mob factions.